Bio

Gary A. Schonwald was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1942.  He is a member of the bar in New York and Florida and is a Solicitor-at-Law in England and Wales.

Following a clerkship with the Honorable Edward J. Dimock (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York), he joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a tax and corporate associate.  In 1973, Gary established an independent practice which became Schonwald, Schaffzin & Mullman.  In 1989, Gary joined Tenzer, Greenblatt, Fallon & Kaplan, now Blank Rome LLP and in 1997 he joined Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein and Selz where he headed the corporate group.  Throughout his career he has represented clients in a broad range of mergers and acquisitions in both the public and private arenas.  In 2003, he joined the firm as a member. 

Gary services clients in a broad range of corporate and intellectual property matters including private venture capital, bank financing, mergers and acquisitions, public securities, software development and licensing, technology licensing, music licensing and magazine formation and acquisition.

Gary has served on the Boards of Directors of a number of private and non-profit entities and is currently a director of the Mint Theatre Company in New York City.